Priorities

Safeguarding K-12 education and expanding pre-K education with continued funding of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future.

Supporting the modernization of aging facilities and expanded capacity.

Continue to invest in higher education institutions.

Secured the future of Maryland’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities, passed historic funding legislation.

 Striving to lower everyday costs of living for working families and seniors.

Upholding lower costs for healthcare and prescription drugs.

Secured paid family leave for workers.

Supporting expansion of Collective Bargaining Rights.

Being an effective voice and advocating for seniors and retirees against crime and predatory businesses that target them.

Protecting a woman’s reproductive rights and right to choose to include broader access and affordability to abortion care; and preventing the prosecution of those who seek, help others to obtain, and provide abortion care.

Addressing health care conditions that stem from systemic medical and social inequalities.

Advocating for legislation to provide green jobs, a clean Bay, affordable access to energy and clean energy.

Protecting our immigrant neighbors from the intrusive and unlawful actions of ICE.

Defending our communities against attacks from the White House.

Preventing disfranchisement of voting rights, including voting access for eligible incarcerated individuals.

Fortifying the future success of our incarcerated women, sponsored legislation to fund and create a women’s pre-release center (passed).

Continuing to keep our communities safe, sponsored legislation to increase the penalties for drunk and drugged driving (passed).

Passed sweeping police reform and accountability legislation; co-sponsored legislation to overhaul the police disciplinary process, provide for public access to police discipline records, implicit bias testing and training, universal body camera usage and limits on use of force.

Leading juvenile justice reform to include sponsoring legislation to eliminate automatically charging juveniles as adults and the elimination of the “Felony Murder” statute and penalty as applies to juveniles.

Providing equity in the prosecution of sexual assault crimes, by sponsoring the elimination of the “Spousal Defense” (passed).

Sponsored legislation to provide victims of hate crimes with access to civil penalties (passed).

Supporting common sense gun legislation and continue to work to stop gun violence.